Holi festival is incomplete without Guniya! How to prepare tasty Gujiya without flour and sugar? get the recipe here

Holi will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. People have already made various preparations, like stocking up on snacks like potato chips, papad, mathi and sev and making gujiyas. The custom of making Gujiya on Holi is very old. People offer them during puja, like Gujiya and Chandrakala are offered as Prasad to Lord Krishna in Radharaman temple. The methods of making this traditional sweet have changed a lot, and people now make it in many different flavours. From Gulkand Gujiya to Chocolate Gujiya, they are quite popular, but Mawa Gujiya is a special dish. This article will tell you how you can make tasty Gujiya without sugar and flour.

It is very important to take care of your health during the festive season. In Indian homes, many types of dishes are prepared for every festival, which are often oily. Any festival is considered incomplete without sweets. Keeping health and fitness in mind, people do many experiments to keep their food tasty and healthy. So, let’s learn how to make healthy gujiyas.

Note the contents
To make healthy gujiya, you will need 1 cup of wheat flour. You can also add half a cup of almond flour or oat flour. To knead the dough, you will need lukewarm water and 2 to 2.5 tablespoons of pure ghee.

Ingredients for Gujiya Filling
If you want to use mawa, you can use as per your requirement along with half a cup of semolina. You will also need 2 teaspoons finely chopped almonds, 2 teaspoons each of finely chopped pistachios and cashews, 1 teaspoon green cardamom powder and 3 tablespoons dry coconut. To sweeten the gujiya, use date powder instead of sugar, or you can also use dates.

Healthy Gujiya Recipe
First, add ghee to the flour and knead it well with hands until it becomes smooth.
After this, knead a dough of normal texture with lukewarm water. Cover it with a wet muslin cloth.
To prepare the filling, first fry the semolina in a little ghee until it turns golden brown.
Take out the semolina in a plate and in the same pan fry the mawa (pork flour) on medium-low flame while stirring continuously.
When the flour cools down, add semolina to it. Add all the dry fruits, cardamom powder and dates powder.
If date powder is not available, take out the date seeds and grind them in a grinder, then add them to the filling. With this the filling of Gujiya will be ready.

Now remove the cloth from the dough and make small balls of it and fill the filling in it. Keep in mind that while making Gujiya, keep it covered so that it does not become crispy.
Seal all the Gujiyas with a thick batter of flour and water so that there is no chance of the edges opening while frying.
When all the Gujiyas are ready, add oil in a pan and fry them on medium flame till they turn golden. Now you can fry these Gujiyas in the air fryer by applying light oil at 180 degree centigrade for 10 to 15 minutes.